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Interpretation and General Provisions (Validation and Indemnity) Act 2009

SOLOLOMON ISLANDS

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS (VALIDATION AND INDEMNITY) ACT 2009

(NO. 7 of 2009)

PASSED by the National Parliament this twentieth day of March 2009.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

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Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this eighth day of May 2009.

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Sir Nathaniel Rahumaea Waena
Governor-General

Date of commencement: date of publication in the Gazette

AN ACT TO VALIDATE ALL SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION MADE AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS (VALIDATION AND INDEMNITY) ACT 2005.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

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INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS (VALIDATION
AND INDEMNITY) ACT 2009

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Interpretation and General Provisions (Validation and Indemnity) Act 2009, and commences on the date it is published in the Gazette.

Validation of subsidiary legislation
Cap. 85

2. (1) This section validates any subsidiary legislation made between the commencement of the Interpretation and General Provisions (Validation and Indemnity) Act 2005 and this Act but is not published in the Gazette or laid in Parliament pursuant to section 61 or 62 of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), any such subsidiary legislation is deemed to have been published in the Gazette or laid before Parliament, pursuant to this subsection.

Validation of acts
Cap 85

3. For the purposes of section 2, any act done under such subsidiary legislation is validated, despite any non-compliance with section 61 or 62 of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act.

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